Is This a March or a Waltz? Then: How to Visualize Conflicting Meters

Описание: Can you tell the difference between a march and waltz? David compares their meters and shows you a way to represent metric conflict with ski-hill graphs.

Thanks to Richard Cohn and Andrea Calilhanna for their comments and help in making this video.

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Bibliography
1. John Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell" March, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" from the Nutcracker, and Johannes Brahms's Second Symphony are all in the public domain.

2. The use of excerpts from John Adams's "This Is Prophetic!" from Nixon in China and Leonard Bernstein's music to "America" from West Side Story falls under the fair use guidelines for commentary and criticism.

3. Richard Cohn was kind enough to share with me some of his teaching materials around hemiolas and ski-hill graphs. The two-diamond graph at the end of the video for the Brahms excerpt is based on a similar graph in Cohn's materials. If you would like to read more about meter, complex hemiolas, and ski-hill graphs, Cohn's 2001 in Music Analysis is the place to start: https://www.jstor.org/stable/854473

4. My tagline is a short quote from John Cage. http://johncage.org/